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As part of the ongoing education series Extra Credit, Daniel Tucker presents Art & Social Justice: The Politics of Image Making. While there are waves of support and enthusiasm for social justice issues, they never go away and artists never cease to connect with them as activist-artist participants or simply as fodder for the ongoing projects of making challenging and relevant images. Increasingly, artists and organizers are coming together to borrow one another's tactics and strategies, recognizing that images have power and that the experiences that may be bracketed as "art" or "politics" both require visionary, critical, pragmatic skills and deep consideration of criticality and place, collaboration, ethics, material and interdisciplinary research. As they intertwine, these practices concerned with the role, history and potential of art in relationship to society can be seen in the streets and in the museum. They look diverse: a community meeting, a public mural, an exhibition, a poster, an educational workshop, a protest. This talk will give an overview of such practices and leave plenty of room to discuss some possibilities and challenges facing those working in this field.